Mirror.



, No. 665,I88. Patented Jan. I, 190i.

I J. -H. CURRY.

MIRROR.

(Application filed Jan. 19, 1900.)

(No Model.)

TTORNEY.

THE nonms Parana ca. Pumaumu. WASHINGTON. p. c

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. CURRY, OF WILKINSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

MIRROR."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,188, dated January 1, 1901.

Application filed January 19, 1900- ficrial No. 1,991- (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. CURRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wilkinsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Mirrors,of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to mirrors and has for one of its objects to provide an improved combined hand and stand mirror which may be quickly changed from one adjustment to the other and positively held in, either position and-at the same time adapted to fold compactly for packing or when not in use.

A further object is to cheapen the cost of this class of goods.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated by the one of the mirror-holding clips and ratchet bearings. Fig. 6 is a view illustrating a modified form of handle or stem clutch.

The frame 1 is formed of spring metal and may be rectangular in shape or of any other desired form, and secured to opposite sides thereof are bearing-heads 2, having their inner faces serrated or grooved to form ratchets 3.

4 is the glass, and 5 are clips which embrace opposite edges thereof and carrying trunnions 6, which turn in bearing-heads 2. The backs of the clips are rounded and bear against the ratchet-faces 3 of heads 2. The spring of frame 1 is sufficient to hold the clips and glass in secure engagement, and the same pressure holds clips 5 in the grooves of ratchets 3 with considerable firmness,sufficient to sustain the glass in any desired position of adjustment or at any inclination and necessitating perceptible pressure on the glass to turn and change its position. Trunnioned glass-holding clips have been used heretofore having smooth bearing-surfaces anddepending entirely on frictional engagement for maintaining the adjustments. My present improvement is far superior thereto, as the glass may be turned or adjusted with as great ease as heretofore and ispositively held in the required position.

Secured on end bar 1 of frame 1 are the separated heads or enlargements 7 and 8, the latter formed with apertures 9.

10 is a bowed or looped handle or stem formed of spring-wire or other material and having its extremities secured in heads 11', which revolve on frame member 1 between heads 7 and 8. A projecting nib or teat 12 is formed by extending an extremity of stem 10 through one of heads 11, and as the tendency of this spring-stem is to expand it holds heads 11 pressed constantly outward against heads 7 and 8, with teat 12 in one of the apertures 9,

according to the position or adjustment desired, and thus rendering the stem and frame rigid. Instead of nib or teat 12 and apertures 9, head 8 and one of heads 11 maybe serrated on adjacent faces, as shown at 13, Fig. 6, thus forming engaging ratchet-surfaces for positively maintaining the adjustment.

Stem 10 forms a convenient holding means for hand use, and for changing the adjustment the stem is simply compressed in the hand, thus disengaging heads 8 and 11 and permitting the stem to .be turned to required position, and when released it looks automatically.

I am aware that prior to this invention a stem has been pivoted or hinged to a mirrorcarrying frame to support it for either hand or stand use; but the union of such parts has been dependent on friction for maintaining the adjustment, and, being liable to work loose, is frequently ineffective. By my improvement the stem and frame have rigid union in each of the several adjustments, with most simple and effective means for changing from one to the other. Also my improvement permits of the article being compactly folded for packing. The frame and handle or stem may be formed of round or fiat metal and may be arranged in a variety of shapes.

I do not confine myself to the bow-spring stem for maintaining the clutch engagement, as this engagement may be maintained in a variety of ways without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1'. The combination of a mirror or glass, a wire frame or mounting therefor standing away from the edge of the glass, a stem revolubly mounted on the frame or mountingthe wire frame constituting a hinge-rod therefor, and two interlocking devices arranged on the portion of the wire frame forming the hinge-rod, one of said devices being fixed to the frame and the other device carried thereby and turning with the stem, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a mirror, the combination of a frame, hinge members on opposite sides of the frame and radially serrated on their inner faces, a glass, and glass-holding devices rounded on their outer edges and mounted to turn in the said hinge members, with their rounded edges catching in the radial serrations of the hinge members and resisting rotation of the glass, substantially as shown and described.

3. An improved mirror comprisingaframe, a glass, and trunnion devices or hinges adapted to unite the glass and frame, each of said trunnion devices or hinges consisting of a fixed and a rotating element, one of said elements havinga circular series of depressions to embrace and removably confine the other element, substantially as shown and described.

4. An improved mirror comprising aglass, a continuous spring-wire frame embracing the glass and standing therefrom or separated on all sides of the glass,centrally-apertured bearing-heads on opposite sides of the frame having their inner faces radially serrated, clips for embracing the glass edges, said clips carrying trunnions which bear in said heads, the backs of the clips bearing against the serrated surfaces of the heads, and holding the glass in any desired degree of inclination to or in the plane of the frame, the tension of the spring-frame maintaining said engagement, substantially as shown and described.

5. An improved mirror comprising a springmetal frame, bearing-heads on opposite sides thereof serrated on their inner faces, a glass, trunnion-clips embracing the glass and bearing in said heads, the clip-backs engaging the serrated heads and maintaining the adjust ment of the glass, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witmesses.

JAMES H. CURRY.

Witnesses:

J. M. NEsBrr, M. B. 001mm. 

